Resistance and the State

Nepalese Experiences
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-216-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 633 g

There has been growing concern about "failed states" around the world, and since the massacre of the Royal family in Nepal in 2001 increasing media attention has focused on the decline of the state and the rise of the Maoist rebels in this Himalayan kingdom where so many Westerners have taken trekking vacations. Development was always going to be a problem in Nepal, but few predicted the precipitous collapse of the state in rural areas in the face of the Maoist insurgency beginning in 1996 due, to a large extent, to the failure of the state to deliver promised development and benefits; instead, it became more and more authoritarian, even oppressive. Exploring the complex relationship between a modernizing, developmentalist state and the people it professes to represent, these fascinating and readable accounts of ordinary people's lives depict the various contexts out of which the Maoist insurgency grew.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gellner, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

List of Plates and Maps

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction: Transformations of the Nepalese State

David N. Gellner

SECTION I: THE STATE, DEVELOPMENT, AND LOCAL POLITICS

Chapter 1. A Heterotopia of Resistance: Health, Community Forestry, and Challenges to State Centralization in Nepal

Ian Harper and Christopher Tarnowski

Chapter 2. Resisting the Environmentalist State

Ben Campbell

Chapter 3. The Politics of Difference and the Reach of Modernity: Reflections on the State and Civil Society in Central Nepal

William F. Fisher

Chapter 4. Nepali Politics: People-Parties Interface

Krishna Hachhethu

PART II: THE STATE AND ETHNIC ACTIVISM

Chapter 5. How Representative is the Nepali State?

Karl-Heinz Krämer

Chapter 6. An ‘Indigenous Minority’ in a Border Area: Tharu Ethnic Associations, NGOs, and the Nepalese State

Gisèle Krauskopff

Chapter 7. The History of the Messianic and Rebel King Lakhan Thapa: Utopia and Ideology among the Magars

Marie Lecomte-Tilouine

PART III: THE STATE AND MAOIST INSURGENCY

Chapter 8. Democracy and Dissent in Nepal: An Overview with Some Perceptions from Dhorpatan

Colin Millard

Chapter 9. Guns, Kinship, and Fear: Maoists among the Tamu-mai (Gurungs)

Judith Pettigrew

Chapter 10. The Kham Magar Country: Between Ethnic Claims and Maoism

Anne de Sales

Person Index

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gellner, David
David Gellner is Lecturer in the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford. He is the author of Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest (1992) and The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes (2001), and the co-author (with Sarah LeVine) of Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal (2005).